Smyrna times., 1887-08-03
Smyrna and Vicinitu-

- TOMATOES of fine quality have beel
sw ket quite freely. '''
Iu- IHE heayy rains have put the groun,
w ia me condition, and our farmers ar,
nd busy turning fallow.
n ONE of our old farmers saws all tbor,
ed Is in growing wheat now is the straw
lor bedding horses and making manure
A. L. AND J. P. HUDSON have each
th9 foundation walls enclosing large
u cellars Tor their respective new resi-.
ut dences, about completed.
s. The signals at Clayton which have
re occupied places between the tracks
al nave been removed to the side and
M rear OF the officers buildings.
c. The present indications are that the
i railroad estimate of 1855, ,233 baskets of
peaches will fall by marketing time to
= not much over 81 100000 baskets.
" The Smyrna Cornet Band and Bel
. mont Camping Club left on Monday
y Tor a week at Woodland Beach. They
= number between twenty and thirty.
= THE ladies of the NJ. P. Church ot
e Clayton will give festival on Wednes-
a Gay and Thursday evenings of next
= week for the benefit of the parsonage,
J HE railroad has constructed a side
; track at Townsend on the line of the
queen Anne's road nearly a half mile
long. It's use will be mainly to accom-
mOdate the peach trains.
/ IT is said that some of our lads who
| nAtUrAIIV nrnfars hn I
get ready assistance in our town in
open violations of the law framed for
the weak and wavering. Hadnit tLa
such? = 's7''''-7'
IHE bids.on the improvements at the
Town Hall were only two. Josenb
Wright $l250 and Weldon & Hum |
phreys $l556, so the contract was |
awarded to Mr. Wright. The changes |
10 De made were noted in previous |
number of the TIMES.
MIR. AND Mrs. L. NJ. PRICE have tho
sympathy of their friends in the loss of
Cnelr youngest child, Wallace James
after few hours illness from cboIera
lniantum, on Sunday. In the shades Of
| yester eve it was sorrowfullv laid to
rest in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
THE farmer who has seen his peacb
prospects vanish before his ewes rs tba
result OF the rains and close warm
humld atmosphere, can take consoIo'
tlon that what is bad for the peaches is
good for the corn crop and nostnre
neIds. Thus do the laws of compensa-
ton work. 0ii9''-
The picking of the troth peach will
commence this week and the mountain
rose next, that is what is, left of them
from the rot. The sigh of the farmers
Is Tor West wind, a wind NOT snr-
charged with moisture and heat rs has
Deen the case with the prevalent Sontb
winds of the past three weeks.
No, it was not the list of exnendi- :
lures that was all right But the in !
uiVidual who contributes entirely ont !
OF proportion to others in his situation +
ana IS generous before he is lust. In a
Cnus gratifying individual vanity or c
nlahlpulator IN giving what creditor t
mas natural claim upon, has streak Y
oi something worse than meanness. t
WIN; w. JONES, of the "NTiddla z
Alley" sowed last year u bushels of
Nol WneaU on III acres and had a WELD of .
zOo OuShels. This was only a fraction I
over Dushel to the acre in the SOWING n
Une yield being up to if not above t5@ b
average OF this seasons crops. NTncb n
OF the deficiency is attributed r. tLo v
ne" enemy that cut off so many heads b
J. FRANK WILDs, Register of Wills
mas admitted to probate the last viii
anu cIl testament of John Wright. late Of a
oI Aehton Hundred, and granted letters "
Iyestamentary unto VIM. p. WRIGHT 4,
James James u. Wright and Geo. D. WRIGHT :, :,
SI1!5G. S19GutOrs also, upon the estate az .,
" " imam Knots, late of East Dover u
hundred, to Joseph Mcdaniel. the ev. -
ecutor named in the will. WV Va ~
SUNDAY was another depopulating fr
Jay TO the town, especially felt he
the churches. A number of our roo,'iy, ri
lre on on a summer trip. The Can,dan hi
camp meeting had its usual voteries
.noug1 the day was one Of decided hl
LiIu' An excursion to a camn hC
heetlng near Chestertown toolr oy,aI,
even packed car loads of the coIored 8"
!eoPie' A number went to the Beach H
or the day. ''-0 'o''cn co
LIE III. following paragraph was handed 10
is III 14ls morning: Quite number went ~ ~
= woodland to-day. Among Others ~
1ur genial friend Nathaniel Painter ~
IaUC grew a graceful pair of rains ON ~
nanusOme pair of blacks, hitched tn ""
,eVehteen-seat barOuche, with his fam -:
y ana large number ofinvited guests q,
% BOARD, and started in high spirits for VI
ne nome OF the festive mosquito. We D,
7lsh them happy time. w II,l DI
!
The experiment of bagging cranes
reylous to their blooming is beino, 30
ried quite extensively this wear a93 Fa
lneland, and there is everv indicotioD
naI the experiment will prove n snc- GU
ess' Doth as preventive of rose buo
a'ages ana rot. The clusters which fri
'ere Dagged a week previous to tbo
me OF blooming, are filling out finely Ca
h1 IL Is thought this method will IL Fa
ute generally adopted next YEAR ]
atem Sunbeam. Bri
DON'T fret about the heat tho NC
ressive days of summer arc I'll aIu,P. Up
YER August bears to summer fbo Uo' 20 pm
tive position that February boiJ, III re- MS
inter, and we all know how brioSt
~. ~ Dailly are many Of the days in the frie
ap year month. Avoid heafino eonS ire 4
AiShb cunning. be fem n
crate in speech and action. and beforo 'he
,1 know it September will be here AL
ltn It's bracing air and health-pivinS Gel Gei
and the promise of q bnss iint IN
ess boom that will tax your energies rreu nel
IT appears from the records tbot Pull
I'VE been kept that july leads 'uee tho Lar
cord for the highest temDeratnro F
O2.Sl which occurred on The Izth min
81. The minimum temperature du,inn r
e month was 64.5. The overan66 p. ]
can temperature was higher than f91 to
y July since 1871 On thirteen daOs site
g maximum temperature was 90 H. T
ees or over. In several other vaars and
e number of days was exceeded bn9 turr
ly in one July (1872) was there sncb EJ thei
small number of days in which the the
nimum temperature was 20 or less ing
Venty-seven days out ofthe thirty i9 tbo sayi
nPerature was S5 degrees or over J..
BY recent order of the PostOmoo IRON
partment, the privilege of sellino wee. wee
Ter sheet envelopes has been extend9 "oS' ~.
to offices other than those of first ~